2005 Seed Grants

Project Lead	Affiliation	Title
Nabeel Bardeesy, PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital	The pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell-of-origin
Dong Feng Chen, MD, PhD	Schepens Eye Research Institute	Repairing retinal disease and damage by neural stem/progenitor cell transplantation
Alan James Davidson, PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital	Functional genomics approach to identify genes expressed in the kidney
Kevin C. Eggan, PhD	Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology	Derivation of Parkinson's disease specific human embryonic stem cell lines
Niels Geijsen, PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital	In vitro germ cell development and epigenetic reprogramming using human and murine ES cells
Rohit Kulkarni, MD, PhD	Joslin Diabetes Center	Identification of beta cell growth factor
Jeannie Lee, MD, PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital	Analysis of X-chromosome inactivation in human embryonic stem cells
M. William Lensch, PhD	Children's Hospital	The analysis of complex genetic syndromes using disease-specific human embryonic stem cell lines
Craig Michelli, PhD	Harvard Medical School	Progenitor cells in the adult Drosophila gut: understanding tissue renewal in endoderm lineages
Hanna Mikkola, MD, PhD	Dana Farber Cancer Institute	Placenta as a niche for hematopoietic stem cell development
Rosario Sanchez-Pernaute, MD, PhD	McLean Hospital	Characterization, transplantation and functional analysis of dopamine neuronal progenitors derived from primate and human embryonic stem cells
Amy Wagers, PhD	Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology	Biology and function of adult skeletal muscle precursor cells